Covid-19: Algarve remains above average for new cases registered in Portugal

Yesterday, Portugal registered more than 602 cases of infection with the new coronavirus and nine deaths attributed to Covid-19, together with a slight increase in hospitalisations, including in intensive care.

According to the epidemiological bulletin released by the Directorate-General for Health, there are records of nine more people with Covid-19 and seven more hospitalised, bringing the total to 495.

Of those hospitalizations, 122 are in intensive care units, six more than on Wednesday.

The total number of new infections this Thursday is below the last two days (874 and 663), but above the average of the last seven days (474.1) and the last 30 (477.6).

Regarding the risk matrix, the values ??revealed on Wednesday are maintained: the incidence rate (refers to the number of new cases per 100 thousand inhabitants in the last 14 days) of the virus is 64.3 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants in the entire national territory and 62.5 on the continent, while the transmissibility index, known as R (t), is 1.02 in mainland Portugal and 1.01 in the entire national territory.

In Portugal, only 1,969,036 doses of vaccine against Covid have already been administered (61,848 more than on Wednesday), 1,397,726 first doses and only 571,310 second doses.

Original article available in Portuguese at http://postal.pt/